Indian history
Naval Mutiny and the War on Memory
On the anniversary of the naval mutiny, remembering how Utpal Dutt’s 1965 play memorialising the event had landed him in jail
‘A Biographer Is an Artist under Oath,’ says Ramachandra Guha
Ramachandra Guha’s new book portrays seven westerners who joined India’s freedom movement. He speaks to Nandini Nair about today’s rebels and the meaning of patriotism
The End of Inevitability
The linear narrative of India’s freedom struggle and its unrealised possibilities
The Right To Remember
Partition Horrors Remembrance Day seeks to memorialise a shared catastrophe of the subcontinent. It could bring people together and find them closure
Irwin Allan Sealy: The Kingmaker
Irwin Allan Sealy’s new book is about Ashoka. The novelist tells Bhavya Dore why his king belongs to the modern times
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